ABSTRACT
Abono, guarantee, voucher, deposit. Aguardiente, unmatured, alcoholic, brandy-like beverage; a hard liquor pri-
marily of sugar, distilled in copper kettles. Ahijado, godchild. Aires, in the Indians' system of reckoning health and illness, disease and other
misfortune is thought to be caused by exposure to "bad" air. Alcalde auxiliar, an auxilliary alcalde, an office in the municipal government. Alcalde, mayor, a civil office, now legally nonexistent in Guatemala, whose
functions, administrative and judicial, are now performed by the intendente; the highest annually changing civil office in the Indian hierarchy.
